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Mistral Introduces Windows® Embedded CE 6.0 Software Development Kit for use with Texas Instruments’ DaVinci Technology

Bangalore, 16 August 2007
Windows® Embedded CE 6.0 drivers and Software Development Kit help designers accelerate digital video applications development

Mistral Solutions, a leading product realization company specializing in real-time embedded solutions, today announced the availability of its Accelerator Program for Windows® Embedded CE 6.0 for use with Texas Instruments Incorporated’s (TI) DaVinci™ technology.

Mistral’s Accelerator Program for Windows Embedded CE 6.0 is a complete Software Development Kit (SDK) for TI’s TMS320DM6446 Digital Video Evaluation Module (DVEVM) based on DaVinci technology. Mistral’s BSP enables customers of DaVinci technology to prototype their software on the DVEVM board before implementing their products.

DaVinci technology and the Windows Embedded CE development environment are both optimal choices for applications such as set-top boxes, digital media adapters, voice-over-IP (VoIP) phones, navigation systems and portable media players. Mistral’s latest offering empowers product developers to blend the high performance of DaVinci technology with the versatility of the Windows Embedded CE development environment in creating innovative products with shorter development cycles and faster time to market.

Accelerator Program for Windows® Embedded CE 6.0 on DaVinci™ Technology

Mistral’s Accelerator Program includes drivers for all the DVEVM peripherals along with a Production-Quality OEM Adaptation Layer (PQOAL). It also supports TI components such as DSP/BIOS Link and the Codec Engine. The Codec Engine APIs have been wrapped into Microsoft® DirectShow® multimedia framework for seamless integration into Windows® Embedded CE applications. This integration allows customers to implement advanced features such as “Windows Network Projector” and “Network Media Device.”

“Mistral’s Accelerator Program for Windows Embedded CE 6.0 for DaVinci technology helps to further foster development of leading-edge digital media devices,” said Brian Jeff, eXpressDSP™ digital media software marketing manger, TI. “The package is the first WinCE 6.0 offering to support DSP/BIOS Link, the DaVinci Codec Engine and TI digital media software, providing developers with the functionality to quickly take advantage of DaVinci technology to differentiate multimedia products.”

This latest offering from Mistral is a part of its initiative as a member of the Microsoft Windows Embedded Partner program. Microsoft Windows Embedded Partner Program is a strategic worldwide program focused on providing partners with increased business opportunity, market awareness and technology advantage.

“Developers are always looking for solutions that allow them to exploit the benefits of their new devices. Our Accelerator SDK will help product developers harness the power of DaVinci Technology and the Windows Embedded CE platform,” said Samyeer Metrani, VP – Product Development, Mistral Solutions. “Our SDK is a high-performance, highly configurable system that runs on TI’s DVEVM. Its implementation makes it easy for developers to port it to other DM644x platforms.”

As a member of the TI DSP Third Party Network, Mistral provides hardware and software design services for accelerated product development on TI’s DaVinci technology. Mistral offers solutions based on DaVinci technology that meet the needs of a wide range of applications including videophones, advanced navigation systems, IP set-top boxes, digital camera’s, and home media centres. Mistral’s services include supporting Windows® CE, plug-in modules for EVMs and professional hardware and software development services based on DaVinci technology.
For more information visit: http://www.mistralsolutions.com/home.htmDaVinci

About the Texas Instruments DSP Third Party Network

Mistral is a member of the TI DSP Third Party Network, a worldwide organization of independent companies that offer products and services supporting TI DSPs. TI third parties provide expertise across a variety of applications, including audio, control, telecommunications, video and imaging and wireless communications. Third party products and services include a broad range of application software, development hardware and software, and consulting services that support original equipment manufacturers’ efforts to bring differentiated products to the market quickly. For more information about the TI DSP Third Party Network, please visit http://www.ti.com/3p.

About Microsoft Windows Embedded Partner Program

The Microsoft Windows Embedded Partner Program (WEP) consists of over 1,200 Partners in 55 countries worldwide. The Program is focused on providing partnering and co-marketing opportunities to companies delivering products, services or solutions based on Microsoft Windows Embedded Platforms.

The program providing numerous benefits devoted to establishing brand awareness, demand generation and strong industry support for its partners. WEP is dedicated to presenting new and exciting opportunities in the embedded space, building strong markets for partner products, services and solutions while helping bring those solutions to market more quickly and with greater market exposure.

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Mistral announces Event Analysis and System Monitoring Tool for Multi-Processor Systems

August 2007
Mistral Solutions Pvt. Ltd., a leading provider of complete technology solutions and professional services in the embedded space, today announced the availability of Continuum Insights™, a new suite of GUI-based software tools from Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing.

Designed to ease and optimize the development of application software for multicomputer embedded systems, Continuum Insights supports systems ranging from a few to hundreds of processors/cores providing application programmers with greater visibility into the entire system through the collection of critical, periodic, non-intrusive, real-time data. Using a GUI format, Continuum Insights presents this information hierarchically, enabling intuitive navigation that lets the developer quickly find any source of potential problems within the system.

Continuum Insights, is based on the Eclipse™ Development and Application Framework, and innovatively provides developers of complex multi-processor-based computer systems with the information they need to accurately tune their system and speed their time to market. This advanced suite of development tools includes an Event Analysis Tool and a System Monitoring Tool and is the latest addition to Curtiss Wright’s COTS Continuum architecture initiative.

Continuum Insights improves the development environment for multi-core SBC and DSP engine systems using Curtiss-Wright boards and the Wind River Workbench®, an Eclipse-based integrated tools suite. It expands upon the Wind River System Viewer tool for event analysis in multi-processor systems, enabling the analysis of multiple multi-core processors, both on a single board and across multiple boards. It goes beyond the limitations of single-processor data capture, enabling system developers to make time-aligned comparisons of the effect of events occurring on multiple processors, significantly reducing the time required to debug their system & captures the race conditions, or interaction between multiple processors, easing and speeding the identification and correction of events that occur in the wrong sequence.

Continuum Insights comes along with 2 major features: Event Analysis Tool & System Monitoring Tool. The Continuum Insights Event Analysis Tool collects and displays operating system-level events, driver-level events, and user-defined events across multiple processors within a system, all accurately time aligned using a common time base. The event data is collected in real-time enabling developers to debug and verify critical interactions between tasks among multiple processors and cores. The System Monitoring Tool provides a hierarchical, graphical representation of a multi-computer system. System and health information are updated in real-time providing displays of processing threads, utilization, task allocations, and processor-level and system-level configuration information.

Continuum Insights is supported on Curtiss-Wright’s new VPX/VPX-REDI based single board computers, and DSP and FPGA engines including the CHAMP-AV6, the VPX6-185, and CHAMP-FX2 products.

About COTS Continuum
COTS Continuum is Curtiss-Wright’s new product architecture designed to make customers more productive and able to leverage new technologies more quickly and with less risk. The COTS Continuum architecture includes a common software, hardware and mechanical architecture for future Curtiss-Wright products. It standardizes I/O routing and pin-outs, electrical interfaces, and APIs to all hardware functionality, and provides a common HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) and user documentation across product lines. The net result is a common out-of-box experience between product families and next generation products benefiting all users by easing their technology insertions.

About Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing
Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing is the industry’s most comprehensive and experienced single source for embedded solutions, ranging from Processing, Subsystems, Data Communication, DSP, and Video & Graphics to the most advanced board level components and fully integrated custom systems. The Embedded Computing group serves the defense, aerospace, commercial and industrial markets and is part of Curtiss-Wright Controls, Inc.

For more information about Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing visit www.cwcembedded.com

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